Our trip to Rurrenabaque started - let's say - interesting. We decided to take the bus as we have to save money and didn't want to pay 500 boliviano for a 40 minutes flight. Anyways, 20 hours in a fucked up bus on an unpaved road didn't sound too bad for us (and it's only 70B), so off we went.... not. First because the bus was about an hour late. The guy in the office kept telling us that it already left the other bus terminal and that it would be here in "20 minutes". Then all of a sudden we had to grab our bags and run towards the bus which didn't enter the terminal bus stopped on the street where it was probably not supposed to stop. We entered and as soon as we started going the bus driver hid a street sign and had to stop the bus again to discuss the issue with the police. After two hours of driving we heard a weird sound and a few meters later the bus stopped and all men started going outside where they stood around the poor bus driver trying to fix whatever was broke and giving him smart advices. This situation was commented by one bolivian on the bus as such: "Well, we might arrive tomorrow at 3pm, but we will arrive eventually" I decided that that's the attitue to go with and just felt asleep. When I woke up we were standing again. This time because two truck drivers couldn't agree on who would go past a narrow piece of the road first. None of them wanted to back down, so 20 other vehicles had to stop as well. Luckily after about half an hour they agreed on the truck on our side backing down, so we could continue. That was also the last interruption of our trip and we arrived surprisingly puntual at 7am in Rurre, so it seems that all of these things were calculated into the timetable of the bus.
-sandra
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